George Dickie (philosopher)

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George Dickie
Born
George Thomas Dickie
University of Illinois at Chicago
Notable studentsNoël Carroll, Daniel Nathan
Main interests
Aesthetics

George Thomas Dickie (12 August 1926 – March 24, 2020) was an American philosopher. He was a

taste
.

Education and career

He received a

Guggenheim Fellow in 1978.[3]

He served as President of the Illinois Philosophy Association (1990–91) and President of the American Society for Aesthetics (1993–94).

Work

He was an influential

institutional theory of art
inspired both supporters who produced variations on the theory as well as detractors.

One of his more influential works is The Century of Taste (1996), an inquiry into several eighteenth-century philosophers' treatments of the subject. The bulk of the work is devoted to championing David Hume's treatment of the subject over that of Immanuel Kant. A review of the work can be found in The Philosophical Review, 107:3 (July, 1998).

Books

  • Aesthetics: An Introduction (Pegasus, 1971)
  • Art and the Aesthetic: An Institutional Analysis (Cornell University Press, 1974)
  • The Art Circle (Haven Publications, 1984)
  • Evaluating Art (Temple University Press, 1988)
  • The Century of Taste (Oxford University Press, 1996)
  • Introduction to Aesthetics: An Analytic Approach (Oxford University Press, 1997)
  • Art and Value (Blackwell, 2001)

References

  1. ^ APA: Memorial Minutes, 2020
  2. ^ a b "George Dickie faculty page". University of Illinois at Chicago. Archived from the original on 12 December 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  3. ^ "1978 U.S. and Canadian Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on March 12, 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2014 – via Wayback Machine.

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